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GP, Medical Editor CMAJ, MSc candidate at LSHTM, and mom keeping her head mostly above water.
citing a primary sources based on a robot’s quick summary is like me trying to do electrical work. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain(1)
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
citing a primary sources based on a robot’s quick summary is like me trying to do electrical work. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain(1)
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can we cut the sports betting ads out already? gambling addiction destroys lives.
can we cut the sports betting ads out already? gambling addiction destroys lives.
Protecting Canada’s youth from the risks of exposure to gambling advertising
Before 2021, single-game sports betting was illegal in Canada; now, in 2025, advertisements for sports betting platforms punctuate screened competitive sports games without limits on their duration or...
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September 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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can we cut the sports betting ads out already? gambling addiction destroys lives.
can we cut the sports betting ads out already? gambling addiction destroys lives.
Ikea sums up my core character flaw:
August 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ikea sums up my core character flaw:
Canadian cervical cancer screening rates for last year are down in young people, the group most at risk for it. we need free self-screening now.
August 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Canadian cervical cancer screening rates for last year are down in young people, the group most at risk for it. we need free self-screening now.
“24 hours or more”. . . and sent to a farm upstate?
July 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“24 hours or more”. . . and sent to a farm upstate?
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1st #malaria treatment for newborn babies approved for use
Bhargavi Rao tells @washingtonpost.com the development would help young babies & malnourished children who are outside of normal treatment guidance & have previously been excluded from trials.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Bhargavi Rao tells @washingtonpost.com the development would help young babies & malnourished children who are outside of normal treatment guidance & have previously been excluded from trials.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
First malaria treatment for newborn babies approved for use
Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the World Health Organization’s Africa region.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
1st #malaria treatment for newborn babies approved for use
Bhargavi Rao tells @washingtonpost.com the development would help young babies & malnourished children who are outside of normal treatment guidance & have previously been excluded from trials.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Bhargavi Rao tells @washingtonpost.com the development would help young babies & malnourished children who are outside of normal treatment guidance & have previously been excluded from trials.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
My contribution to your doom-scroll quota.
Tackling communicable disease surveillance and misinformation in Canada
[See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250641][1]
A crisis of communicable diseases is unfolding in North America, just as Canada’s health systems’ responses are being hampered b...
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July 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My contribution to your doom-scroll quota.
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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
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June 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
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"In an editorial published Monday in the CMAJ, Dr. Catherine Varner argues pregnant people are "bearing the burden" of Canada's measles outbreak."
— CBC News
Read the full editorial here ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250820
— CBC News
Read the full editorial here ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250820
6 infants born with congenital measles from unvaccinated mothers in Ontario since last fall | CBC News
Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not ...
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June 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"In an editorial published Monday in the CMAJ, Dr. Catherine Varner argues pregnant people are "bearing the burden" of Canada's measles outbreak."
— CBC News
Read the full editorial here ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250820
— CBC News
Read the full editorial here ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250820
is opposed to the use of the term “nowadays” in academic literature.
May 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
is opposed to the use of the term “nowadays” in academic literature.
just went to use a highlighter as lip balm. was i always bananas with exams?
May 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
just went to use a highlighter as lip balm. was i always bananas with exams?
just dug out my copy of Leviathan from the early aughts for a citation. arts undergrads in medicine: mostly an exercise in self-flagellation, but occasionally helpful on MSc essays.
May 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
just dug out my copy of Leviathan from the early aughts for a citation. arts undergrads in medicine: mostly an exercise in self-flagellation, but occasionally helpful on MSc essays.
Dear Harvard Referencing System,
You are actually not all that bad. Inferior and aesthetically displeasing, but I take back what I said before.
Love, s
You are actually not all that bad. Inferior and aesthetically displeasing, but I take back what I said before.
Love, s
May 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Dear Harvard Referencing System,
You are actually not all that bad. Inferior and aesthetically displeasing, but I take back what I said before.
Love, s
You are actually not all that bad. Inferior and aesthetically displeasing, but I take back what I said before.
Love, s
The term “sexual harassment” wasn’t coined until 1975, turning what might have been perceived as a social norm into pathology. The power of naming.
May 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The term “sexual harassment” wasn’t coined until 1975, turning what might have been perceived as a social norm into pathology. The power of naming.
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pass the gravol please.
April 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
pass the gravol please.
It has finally happened. A movie was better than the book. Though it’s interesting to see inside Jack’s head, there is a paucity of uncomfortably long shots and perfectly arranged cans of tomatoes.
April 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It has finally happened. A movie was better than the book. Though it’s interesting to see inside Jack’s head, there is a paucity of uncomfortably long shots and perfectly arranged cans of tomatoes.
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another reason why pan-Canadian licensure would make it easier for every person in Canada to have a GP.
another reason why pan-Canadian licensure would make it easier for every person in Canada to have a GP.
Canada must act quickly to turn U.S. ‘brain drain’ into Canadian ‘brain gain’: CMA
Canada must act quickly to attract the American medical and scientific professionals who no longer feel valued in Trump’s United States with its mass layoffs and the elimination of health programs and...
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April 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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another reason why pan-Canadian licensure would make it easier for every person in Canada to have a GP.
another reason why pan-Canadian licensure would make it easier for every person in Canada to have a GP.